Ónica
given name · Latin script
Ónica is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country. In Guyana it is the 78th most common given name.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 948K
- GYGuyana1 in 2.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 134 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Onica in US United States, ZA South Africa, GY Guyana and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ónica counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Onica | 23 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Onica | 22 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 351K | — | Onica | 1 |
| US United States | — | 351 | 1 in 948K | 347 | Onica | 134 |
| GY Guyana | #78 | 307 | 1 in 2.4K | 307 | Onica | 3 |
| TT Trinidad & Tobago | — | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Onica | 7 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Onica | 4 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Ónica a male or female name?
- Ónica is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Ónica have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Ónica in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled onica.
- Where is Ónica most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ónica is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 2.4 thousand people — even though South Africa holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ónica?
- In the United States, the national register counted 351 people named Ónica in 2020, about 1 in 948 thousand residents.
- How common is Ónica compared with other names?
- In Guyana, Ónica is the 78th most common given name of 15,440 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ónica?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%B3nicaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ónica” — the 78th most common given name in Guyana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.